@SpaceCowboy641 I wouldn't call it a documentary. The real Memphis Belle's last mission was a french milk run with no damage done to the plane. This movie seems to compile most of the worst horror stories that actually happened during the bombing campaign and put the poor Memphis Belle through it. Mid-air collisions, chunks of the plane blowing off, ball turret gunners getting blown out of their planes...they all happened, just not all at once.
FYI: ~Tragically, after having emerged victorious over the Germans, usGen.Geo.Patton lamented, --saying he to late discovered USA had been fighting the wrong foe, --that he found the Jews were the criminal scum of the earth, and that St.Hitler was valiant in his struggle to defeat jew-Communism and the warmongering Rothschild Bank'ster-mafia that is today ruthlessly casting millions of out of work American families into the street by means of their greed driven insatiable usury.!!!
@madhammudeux true, if there is a school next door, i don't think they would send 70 planes with 10 bombs. most likely it's going bomb the school as well.
@madhammudeux Uhm...although I see where you are going with the "hollywood bullshit" thing and I would normally agree with you I have to inform you that the movie is actually not unrealistic in that regard at all, allied air offensive did infact revolve around sending hundreds, sometimes over a thousand, heavy bombers to bomb a industrial area or a single factory of great importance (+ oil refineries, docks, railway junctions and so on).
@EinundzwanzigPanzer And if a school or apartment block was nearby it didn't play a large role either, the targets themselves justified the civillian losses. You have to understand that the morals of war were a little different at the time even for the "good guys". Furthermore war crimes comitted by the nazis and the german bombings of british cities didn't exactly do much in the way of making the allies feel bad about carpet bombing densly populated areas, which is perfectly understandable.
@EinundzwanzigPanzer At least the americans tried to achive some level of acuraccy with their (for the time) advanced Norden bombsights and daylight attacks, although the civilian losses were still awfully high. The british took another aproach with their bombing campaign. They relied on night bombings which helped reduce bomber losses a great deal, but it did mean that they had to abandon any hope of acuraccy, hitting a factory was simply impossible in the night.
@EinundzwanzigPanzer So instead they relied on even bigger raids than the americans with even bigger heavy bombers with larger payloads so that they could level an entire city insetad of just a single area, it was simply the only way to guarantee that the target was hit when performing a nightly raid. Not that one should feel particulary angry about that since it was after all the germans who invented terror bombings during the spanish civil war.
No! Why did you throw those beautiful Browning .50 cals in the sea! :(
TaZ101SAGA 2 days ago
At least as good as "Battle of Britain" and almost a documentary. This movie is a gem !!!
SpaceCowboy641 1 month ago
@SpaceCowboy641 I wouldn't call it a documentary. The real Memphis Belle's last mission was a french milk run with no damage done to the plane. This movie seems to compile most of the worst horror stories that actually happened during the bombing campaign and put the poor Memphis Belle through it. Mid-air collisions, chunks of the plane blowing off, ball turret gunners getting blown out of their planes...they all happened, just not all at once.
SpenzOT 3 days ago
@Maggielovesummer I love joke too! I was just thinking of it just the other day!
TheSupercaitlin1 1 month ago
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FYI: ~Tragically, after having emerged victorious over the Germans, usGen.Geo.Patton lamented, --saying he to late discovered USA had been fighting the wrong foe, --that he found the Jews were the criminal scum of the earth, and that St.Hitler was valiant in his struggle to defeat jew-Communism and the warmongering Rothschild Bank'ster-mafia that is today ruthlessly casting millions of out of work American families into the street by means of their greed driven insatiable usury.!!!
AryanKnight 1 month ago
"Ha ha ha Hitler u can have my bullets too" lol best joke ever
Maggielovesummer 2 months ago
Since when did the allies send a whole fleet of bombers out to bomb a single factorY?
'There's a school next door guys'
Hollywood Bullshit!
madhammudeux 4 months ago
@madhammudeux true, if there is a school next door, i don't think they would send 70 planes with 10 bombs. most likely it's going bomb the school as well.
theBlue123498 2 months ago
@madhammudeux Uhm...although I see where you are going with the "hollywood bullshit" thing and I would normally agree with you I have to inform you that the movie is actually not unrealistic in that regard at all, allied air offensive did infact revolve around sending hundreds, sometimes over a thousand, heavy bombers to bomb a industrial area or a single factory of great importance (+ oil refineries, docks, railway junctions and so on).
EinundzwanzigPanzer 2 months ago
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@EinundzwanzigPanzer And if a school or apartment block was nearby it didn't play a large role either, the targets themselves justified the civillian losses. You have to understand that the morals of war were a little different at the time even for the "good guys". Furthermore war crimes comitted by the nazis and the german bombings of british cities didn't exactly do much in the way of making the allies feel bad about carpet bombing densly populated areas, which is perfectly understandable.
EinundzwanzigPanzer 2 months ago
@EinundzwanzigPanzer At least the americans tried to achive some level of acuraccy with their (for the time) advanced Norden bombsights and daylight attacks, although the civilian losses were still awfully high. The british took another aproach with their bombing campaign. They relied on night bombings which helped reduce bomber losses a great deal, but it did mean that they had to abandon any hope of acuraccy, hitting a factory was simply impossible in the night.
EinundzwanzigPanzer 2 months ago
@EinundzwanzigPanzer So instead they relied on even bigger raids than the americans with even bigger heavy bombers with larger payloads so that they could level an entire city insetad of just a single area, it was simply the only way to guarantee that the target was hit when performing a nightly raid. Not that one should feel particulary angry about that since it was after all the germans who invented terror bombings during the spanish civil war.
EinundzwanzigPanzer 2 months ago
@EinundzwanzigPanzer Terror bombing first happened in WW1. There are instances of Zeppelins bombing London.
TheHIV123 2 weeks ago
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EinundzwanzigPanzer 2 months ago
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best war movie of all time
xXDHud13Xx 4 months ago
7:25 could possibly be one of the best parts in the movie :)
singningwongho 6 months ago
AMAZING MOVIE!!
zombie62721 11 months ago
@zombie62721 I totally agree.
a380person 10 months ago 2